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Typhoon Dolphin, bringing fierce winds and heavy rain, has struck China's Zhejiang Province and Shanghai. As the most powerful typhoon to make landfall in China this year, it has caused widespread damage.
Correspondent Choi Go-un reports from Beijing.
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A truck is instantly knocked over sideways instead of moving forward, and a fallen basketball stand is whipped back up by the howling wind and rain as if the footage were being rewound.
This is the destructive power of Typhoon Dolphin, which instantly blew away a security guard post in front of an apartment complex and a factory roof.
[What should we do? It is too dangerous. We cannot move forward at all.]
Typhoon Dolphin made landfall in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, at around 5:30 PM local time yesterday (the 9th), and after crossing the sea, made landfall again about an hour later in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province.
[Because of the wind, everything is shaking! The lights, the windows.]
At the time, the maximum wind speed reached 42 meters per second, making it impossible for a person to stand properly and strong enough to destroy buildings.
[China Central Television (CCTV) Reporter: The wind and rain have become much more ferocious. I am holding tightly onto the railing to keep myself from being blown away.]
Typhoon Dolphin also unleashed water bombs.
With relentless rain pouring down from yesterday until this morning—reaching 425 mm in Zhejiang Province and 316 mm in Shanghai—stores and roads were submerged, turning areas into vast seas of water.
[Shanghai Bag Store: The display racks have all collapsed, and the bags are completely flooded. There is nothing we can do. Everything is gone, and we have to start over.]
At Shanghai Pudong and Hongqiao airports, more than 1,400 flights were canceled, and over 1 million people were estimated to have evacuated from regions in the path of the typhoon.
Typhoon Dolphin was reported to have caused eight deaths in the Philippines and six injuries in Taiwan, but Chinese authorities have not yet compiled or released casualty figures.
Typhoon Dolphin is now moving slowly inland into China with weakened strength.
However, the remnants of the typhoon are forecast to bring heavy downpours to the Shandong Peninsula and Beijing until this coming Wednesday, raising concerns over additional damage such as floods and landslides.
Video Editing: Jeong Yong-hwa | CG: Lim Chan-hyeok
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